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...great Samuels silver sale dawned cold and grey. Soon it began to rain. It rained all day. Enough patriotic San Franciscans went to Samuels' in slickers and galoshes to keep the extra crew of clerks busy. But as a record-breaking sale it was a wet, soggy flop...
...Barry & Baiata soon approached Van Derck with a proposition for "financing" in the same manner a "Barry Special" train to the Carnera-Baer fight in Manhattan. That, they said, would net sufficient profits to pay off the $172 shortage, leave something extra for all. The "Barry Special" was a flop, and Clerk Van Derck, now into the bank for $1,100, was asked to finance two concessions at the Chicago Fair ? a Chinese Show in The Bowery and the Hall of Champions where a stable of broken-down fisticuffers pummeled each other nightly. Both were miserable failures...
...secret that Repeal has been something very close to a flop as a business proposition. Publication of Government liquor tax receipts for fiscal 1934 merely added to the evidence. Liquor retailing has been bitterly competitive and for small stores practically profitless. Big distributors are sagging under the weight of carrying the corner dealer. Even the distillers, always suspect, have found Repeal no gold mine. Few weeks ago National Distillers, stockmarket comet of 1933, hit a new low for the year on the same day that Coca-Cola hit a new high of $136 per share...
...TIME never said another thing from now on, the remarks in the July 2 issue regarding the average college-bred woman being a "flop" as a wife, ought to cause the renewal of a lot of subscriptions. Keep it up. Maybe some of us chaps who have been stung will get a break. Anyhow, we are fed up on a college-bred wife whose remaining asset of her college days consists of a taste for punk cigarets plus a tarnished complexion and an insistence to short-circuit any and all opinions contrary to her own by espousing a look...
...considerable floating labor population, a type always more bitter in protest than local unemployed. Some of its members were wearing red arm bands. They stopped a coal truck and converted its load from fuel to missiles. Crash, crash, tinkle, tinkle went the first floor windows of the City Hall. Flop went a policeman felled by a lump of coal. Hiss, hiss, hiss went tear gas bombs as the police replied. When the load of coal became exhausted, sticks, stones and bottles took their place. The police used clubs...